Car construction



J. KOZIOL CAR CONSTRUCTION Filed June 22, 1923 3 Sheets-$heet 1 ATTORNEY i WITNESS:

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WITNESSE' Jan. 1925- 1 J. KOZIOL CAR CONSTRUCTION 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed June 22, 1923 INVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNESS:

' moved from Patented Jan. 6, 1925.

U N I T E S T GAR CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed. June 22, 1923. Serial No. 647,112.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KozroL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tarnov, in the county of Platte and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to a railway car construction, and has for its primary object to provide a freight or stock car with a partition normally housed beneath the roof thereof and sustained horizontally with respect to said roof, but movable to arrange the same vertically at any desired position in the car and thereby divide the car into separate compartments. I

A further object is to provide a stock or freight car with partition means easily moved to operative position to provide the car with compartments, and readily elevated and sustained horizontally below the roof of the car.

With these broadly stated objects in view and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood by a reading of the following specification when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the improvement resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts fully described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an approximately central vertical longitudinal sectional view through a car provided with the improvement, the lat-' ter being in inoperative position.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional View approximately on the line 2--2 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a transverse sectional view approximately on the line 33 of Figure 1, showing the partition in operative position.

Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view showing the partition being 7 its inoperative to its operative position. i

The remaining figures illustrate details to wit:

Fig. 5 isa view perspective of a part of the partition illustrating the means of joining the same.

Fig. 6 is a viewin perspective of one of the partition guides.

Fig. 7' is a view in perspective of the rollers and part of the wear plate for guid ng the partition thereover and into the aforementioned guides.

In the accompanying drawings I have 7.13) ar Pre erab y of a reat 1 th n. th u p r ai s, .2 th eqn 'n illustrated my improvement in connection with a stock car, but it will be obvious that the same may be empl yed on other class of freight cars. i i

To the sides of the car 1 below the roof, and disposed in longitudinal parallel relar tion I secure a track. l/Vhen itisfollild desirable to space the track a suitable. dis- -tance inwardly with respect to tlie sid es of the car I secure upon the said sides plates in the nature of boards 2, and to the boards I secure the track. The tracks comprise upper rails 3 and lower-rails Eachrail has its confronting face grooved, as indi: cated by the numerals 5 and 6 respectively. The lower wall provided by the groove Gin the respective rails 4C are notched at def termined spaced intervals, and in these notches there are received rollers 7 which have their shafts 8 in the nature of pins which are passed transversely through the rail 4. The rollers 7 have their upper peripheries disposed a slight but suitable distance above the lower wall of the groove 6., The tracks provided by the rails 3 and 4.- may extend the entire length of the car 1 or may terminate adjacent to the ends of the car.

Arranged for slidable movement in the grooved rails 3 and 4 of the opposed traelis there are tongues 9 and 10, formed on the opposed inner corners of a plate 11. The plate 11 is also in the nature of a wooden board, preferably of oak. The plate 11 is. of a materially less length than the tracks prgvided by the rails 3 and 4, in is only of a. slightly greater length than the distance between the floor of the car and the lower rails 4. The outer face of each plate 11 is flush with they confronting faces of the rails 3 and hand the lower tongue 10 of the said plate, of eourse, travels over -her lle' he up r n ue a en tri t elly Co tact ith h rails. at th r o e 5 i th r il 32 that the i2 te r re ly ew. n he ree s sh ting the il 3 and e- 011 ts out r face e ch f he plate 1 h s ur here o: upper a-a lei er rail 12 and 3 esp i ely T e e el, it $S Queues-hea f 9 f e rails are e eove i, as a nd 5 respe vely? rails 12 nd 3- are of the ame engt a he plat s Se ired tatt e platesfl between the rails 12 and 13, at one end of the said plates there are bearings 16 for a shaft 17. On the shaft 17, at a suitable distance from the respective fixed and movable tracks there are fixed flanged drums 18 on which are secured and around which are trained flexible elements such as stout cords or chains 19. Between the drums there is fixed on the shaft 17 a sprocket wheel 20 having side flanges which cover the teeth thereof, and the said sprocket is engaged by an endless chain 21.

The partition is made up of spaced slats 22, and to one of the end slats the flexible elements 19 are secured.

The slats are connected and held in proper spaced relation. by chain systems of a particular and peculiar construction. Each chain comprises fiat links 23 having lapping ends which are pivoted together, as at 24. Each link is formed with an outstandingsocket 25, and in these sockets the ends of the slats 22 are received. On all except the outer end link the sockets are centrally formed on the said links, the sockets on the referred to link being preferably formed ina line with the outer end thereof. The opposite end link has its inner portion bent upon itself to provide a yoke 26, and in this yoke there is arranged a wheel 27 mounted on a suitable shaft or pivot 28 that passes through the yoked end of the link. Each of the wheels 27 is received in the grooves lt and 15 of the rails 12 and 13 of the movable tracks.

Secured on the upper edge of the lower rails 13, and also received in the grooves of the said rails there is a channeled wear plate 29011 which the socket portions of the partition chains rest; The opposed rails 13 are connected together and held in proper spaced relation by angle braces 30, the said braces, at their lapping central portions being connected together, and the ends of the said braces being, of course, secured to the said rails 13.

,For distinction, I have referred to the end of the movable track provided with the shaft ,17 as the inner end of the said track, and

secured to the rails 13 of-the movable track .at their outer ends there is a bracket. 31

which may comprise a plate having a forked 32. the shaft for these rollers being indicated by the numeral 33. The rollers 32, being positioned outward of the movable track, are designed to guide the partition thereover when the latter is moved to operable position. \Vhen the partition is caused to slide over and off of the movable track, the same has its ends received in channeled guide members 34 respectively. Each guide 34 is removably fixed to the opposed sides of the car 1.

Each, guide has its sides at it lower end provided with outturned flanges forming feet 35. These feet are provided with openings through which are passed securing means 36 that enter the floor of the car. The inner wall 37 of each of the guides 3st is provided with an additional opening designed to align with the longitudinal rails between the uprights at the sides of the car, or if desired, with blocks that may be secured to the sides of the car, and through these openings there are passed additional securing elements 38. The inner side of each of the channeled guides 3 1 on the side thereof adjacent to the movable track is cut away from the top thereof and is formed with an outwardly rounded lip 39 whereby to effectively guide the partition into the said channeled members 34. To accomplish this, a pull is exerted upon the partition from the outer end thereof, while one operator handling the endless chain 21 will regulate the falling of the partition into its guides. To elevate the partition and bring the same on to the movable track, the chain is again operated to turn the sprocket wheel which likewise turns the shaft 2 and to cause the flexible elements 19 to be wound on the drums 18. To hold the movable track stationary during this operation as well as to hold the said track properly positioned when the partition is brought to operative position there are arranged at desired points on the rails l hooks 4C0 that are designed to be received in suitable eyes 4-1 on the lower rails 13 of the movable track.

The means that secure the guides are removable that the said guides may be arranged opposite each other at any desired parts of the car and again fixed thereon, and whereby the partition may provide the car with a stall or compartment at any desired point throughout the length thereof.

While I have illustrated a satisfactory embodiment of my improved device, my features of invention are capable of extended application. and I do not wish to be limited to the specific structure shown and described.

Having described the invention, I claim:

'1. In combinationwith a stock or similar car, of a fixed track on the sides adjacent to the top thereof, a track slidable in the fixed track, a partition movablewith and through the slidable track, and vertically disposed guides on the car to receive the partition when the same is moved to vertical position through the slidable track.

2. The combination with a stock or similar car, of a track comprising spaced rails secured to the sides thereof below the roof of the car, a second track slidable in the rails of the fixed track, a partition comprising spaced slats, pivotally associated links to which the slats are connected slidably received in the last mentioned track and sus ceptible to movement therethrough, means holding the slidable track at different po sitions on the fixed track, and means removably secured to the sides of the car providing guides to receive the partition when the latter is moved off of the slidable track and arranged vertically with respect to the car.

3. The combination with a stock or similar car, of a track secured to the sides of the car below the top thereof, said track includ ing upper and lower parallel rails having their confronting faces grooved, anti-frictional rollers in the grooves of the lower rails, a movable track comprising plates having its inner corners tongued to be received in the grooves, spaced rails on the outer face of the plate having their confronting faces grooved longitudinally, a partition normally arranged between the rails of the slidable track, including spaced slats, chain members comprising fiat pivotally connected links having sockets to receive the ends of the slats therein, means fixing the slats in said sockets, a wheel journaled on one of the end links, received between the grooves of the said rails, a grooved wear plate on the lower rails for the chain, guide wheels on the outer ends of the lower rails for directing the partition off of the movable track, means removably fixed to the sides of the car for receiving the partition therein when moved off of the track, flexible means connected with the inner ends of the partition, revoluble means to which said flexible means are connected, and operating means for said revoluble means.

4. The combination with a stock or similar car, of a track comprising upper and lower grooved rails fixed to the sides of the car below the top thereof, a plate having tongues received in the grooves of the respective track rails, anti-frictional means between the tongues and rails, rails having their confronting faces channeled fixed on the outer face of the respective plates and comprising therewith a movable track, a shaft journaled in bearings between the rails of the movable track at one end thereof, a flanged sprocket wheel fixed on the shaft, an endless chain therearound, drums fixed on said shaft, flexible elements secured thereto and wound therearound, brace means between the lower rails of the movable track, a partition designed to be normally supported between the rails of the movable track and comprising spaced slats, chains comprising flat links having sockets receiving the ends of the respective slats therein, and resting on the lower rails of the movable track, wheels journaled in bearings in the links at one end of the partition, and received in the grooves of the movable track, said flexible elements being connected'to one of the end slats, wheels journaled in bearings at the outer ends of the lower rails of the movable track for guiding the partition thereover, channeled guides removably fixed to the sides of the car for receiving the partition therein when moved off of the movable track, each of said guides having its inner side terminating below its upper end and formed with an outwardly directed guide lip, and means for holding the movable track in fixed relation to the fixed track when the partition is to be moved off of the said movable track or sustained thereon.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOSEPH KOZIOL. 

